Safety at road junctions by Han, Jia Min

“…This study was undertaken to examine traffic safety at road junctions, specifically on those which had resulted in fatal accidents over the past three years. The research data was obtained from Singapore Traffic Police Department and information such as the types of junctions, types of vehicles involved, characteristics of the road users involved and reasons for the cause of accidents were extracted for analysis. …”
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Investigation and enhancement of viola jones face detection algorithm performance using contrast-limited adaptive histogram equalization by Mulyadi, Erina

“…Face detection is the first and the most important steps to the entire face analysis algorithms, including face alignment, face relighting, face modeling, face recognition, head pose tracking, face verification/authentication, facial expression tracking/recognition, gender or age recognition, and many more. [1] While this sound like a simple task for humans, it is still an extremely challenging task for computers. In the past few decades, face detection has been one of the top research topics. …”
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Preparation of plasmonic metal / semiconductor hybrid nanostructures : Ag @ TiO2 @ Cu2O nanoprisms by Yong, Si Jie

“…Hybrid plasmonic metal / oxide semiconductor core-shell nanostructures have garnered extensive attention owing to their unique properties and limitless potential applications. Past researches tended to overlook the importance of anisotropic nanostructures such as nanoprisms despite their properties having the potential to be tuned to satisfy different application requirements. …”
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Web-based GUI for embedded applications by Poeu, Vannarath

“…It is to be kept in mind that the key attribute is to eliminate software installation dependencies and the ability to run on any platform. Building on past implementations and experience, this projects chooses the latest available technology in the form of Node.JS, Socket.IO, UV4L and runs on the popular Raspberry Pi and Arduino combination. …”
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Familism and depression among Singaporeans with coronary heart disease: The mediating role of social support and self-perceived burden by Ma, Stephanie Hilary Xinyi

“…Mood disorders such as depression are prevalent amongst patients with CHD. Past research has focused on the individual risk factors predicting depression, but there is a dearth of research examining how familial attitudes may predict depression. …”
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Language proficiency and the development of executive function in English-speaking chinese Singaporean children by Tan, Jolene Gek Hian

“…Language proficiency has been shown to be associated with the development of the Executive Function (EF) in young children. Past research has shown that larger language proficiency is related to better EF abilities. …”
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The impact of "Maritime Silk Road" on trade between China and Obor countries : China’s container throughput forecast based on quantitative analysis by Xu, Junjie

“…This article focuses on how China’s own economic situation would affects container throughput. By looking the past decades information, this article will produce a series factors ranging from macro-economic factors to micro business factors that affect container throughput. …”
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Assessing surface seals of soils on slopes by Liu, Chenying

“…Past research has observed that infiltration on surface soil which is subjected to frequent rainfall does not start as soon as precipitation begins. …”
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Hybrid brain computer interface for relaxation management by Ngian, Michelle Mei Xue

“…Learning performance is an important feature that needs to be evaluated in managing learning performance of the students. In the past, teachers evaluate students by monitoring their grades. …”
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Kinect-based automatic sign language recognition by Khor, Gladys Chiao Yuin

“…Sign language recognition has been gaining popularity over the past few years, it is the natural language and communication tool for hearing and speaking disabilities. …”
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Effectiveness of relational & personal savoring on mothers of children with autism spectrum disorder by Ng, Valerie Shi Hui

“…Savoring refers to the experience of focusing on a specific positive past event and this technique has been demonstrated to be beneficial for positive affect, depression and neuroticism. …”
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Study of heat driven adsorption chiller and compare its performance data with other adsorption chillers by Chua, Wei Cong

“…Global trends in cooling demands grew rapidly during the past decades due to the higher quality of living standards and the increasing needs for the comfort of humans in this modern era. …”
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Information structure of subordinate clauses in Miriwoong by Sim, Michelle Jia En

“…The research mainly utilised interlinearised transcriptions of past recordings collected at Mirima Dawang Woorlab-gerring, neglecting prosodic features, which is ground for future research. …”
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A research study on human response to alert trigger in air traffic control radar display by Lee, Yu Jie

“…One of the solutions currently under researched is through the integration of colour to provide visual cue to assist ATCO in identifying imminent danger. Past research studies have discovered that colours indeed have the capability to guide attention effectively without experiencing tunnelling effect. …”
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Livelihood Strategies Amongst Indigenous Peoples in the Central Cardamom Protected Forest, Cambodia by Long, Sarou

“…Thmor Doun Pov and Tatei Leu are amongst the small communities scattered in the CCPF, where the past has been difficult and the future is uncertain for them. …”
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A critical review of experimental results on low temperature charge transport in carbon nanotubes based composites by Bhatia, Ravi, Kumari, Kiran, Rani, Reena, Suri, Anil, Pahuja, Ushma, Singh, Devinder

“…In this review article, we summarize interesting experimental results on low temperature charge transport properties of composites based on multi-wall carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) that have been reported in the past decade. In particular, we critically review different conduction mechanisms that have been identified through detailed investigations of charge transport characteristics as functions of MWCNT loading in the composites, temperature, and magnetic field.…”
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Femtosecond laser cleaning for aerospace manufacturing and remanufacturing by Maharjan, Niroj, Zhou, Wei, Zhou, Yu, Guan, Yingchun

“…Microsecond and nanosecond lasers have been studied in the past for laser cleaning applications, but femtosecond laser is rarely used for cleaning due to the greater possibility of ablation from the extremely high peak power (in gigawatt range) of ultrashort pulses. …”
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Electrospun composite nanofibers and their multifaceted applications by Sahay, Rahul, Kumar, Palaniswamy Suresh, Sridhar, R., Sundaramurthy, Jayaraman, Venugopal, J., Mhaisalkar, Subodh Gautam, Ramakrishna, Seeram

“…The re-exploration of the nanostructure production technique known as electrospinning was carried out in the past decade due to its simplicity and uniqueness of producing nanostructures. …”
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The end of the “time of the streets”: temporality in the life course of a Russian ex-gangster by Stephenson, Svetlana, Safin, Rustem

“…We address the different times in Tsigan’s life – his childhood, youth and adulthood, his time on the streets, his decision to leave the gang and his reflexions and memories of his past as reconstructed through the narratives presented at two different points of his biography. …”
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How does big data influence smart manufacturing in the presence of preventive maintenance? A multi-analytical investigation by Samadhiya, Ashutosh, Naz, Farheen, Kumar, Anil, Garza-Reyes, Jose Arturo, Luthra, Sunil

“…Originality: The role of PM in the context of BDA and SM has been ignored in past research, and this study offers novelty by examining this relationship.…”
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